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      "id": "2026-gisi-infopro-digital-creteil-ai-dismissals-suspended",
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                "locator": "Page 12: 'ORDONNONS la suspension du projet de réorganisation de la Société GISI et du projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction) en découlant, incluant la suspension des processus de reclassement, jusqu'à ce qu'il soit procédé à la réalisation des tests en situation réelle et à l'élaboration de numéros 0'; 'PRONONÇONS à l'encontre de la société GISI une astreinte provisoire de 8 000 euros par jour de retard pendant une durée de trois mois'; 'FAIT AU PALAIS DE JUSTICE DE CRETEIL, le 15 septembre 2026'. Page 1: 'ORDONNANCE DU : 15 Septembre 2026', 'N° RG 26/00991'.",
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                "locator": "\"la suspension du projet de réorganisation (...) et du projet de licenciement collectif (des 8 secrétaires de rédaction)\"; \"par jour de retard sur trois mois\"; \"En revanche, les dommages et intérêts réclamés ont été rejetés.\"",
                "relation": "supports",
                "source_id": "s2"
              },
              {
                "locator": "\"La justice a suspendu mardi en référé un projet de suppression de 8 postes au sein du groupe de presse Gisi (L'Usine nouvelle, LSA, L'Argus de l'assurance...), en lien avec le déploiement de l'intelligence artificielle\"; \"Il a par conséquent suspendu le plan jusqu'à la réalisation de tests complets. Contactée par l'AFP, la direction de Gisi a indiqué se réserver la possibilité de faire appel\".",
                "relation": "supports",
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            "assertion": "On 15 September 2026 the Créteil judicial court, sitting in référé on the application of Gisi's CSE, ordered the suspension of Gisi's reorganisation project and of the resulting collective dismissal of the eight secrétaires de rédaction, including the redeployment processes, until real-situation tests and pilot issues confirm what share of sub-editor tasks the generative-AI tool can take over; it imposed a provisional penalty of 8,000 euros per day of delay for three months, refused the damages provision and awarded 2,000 euros in costs.",
            "causal_attribution": "Established by the court order itself and confirmed by L'Informé and AFP, which each consulted the decision."
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            "id": "c2",
            "status": "documented",
            "evidence": [
              {
                "locator": "Page 11: 'représenter un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés de la société GISI'; 'la société GISI ne justifie pas de la mise en oeuvre des dispositifs de prévention du risque lié à l'introduction de la nouvelle technologie d'IA générative alors que dans le DUERP 2025 qu'elle produit (pièce 5) elle identifie 3 risques en lien avec l'introduction de l'IA (stress lié à l'insécurité de l'emploi lié à l'intelligence artificielle ; changements organisationnels liés à l'introduction de l'intelligence artificielle ; absence de repères liés à l'utilisation de l'IA et manque d'acculturation) mais ne les a pas côtés'. Page 10: 'sans aucune participation des salariés concernés, ni réalisation en situation réelle'; 'L'expert pronostique un risque d'intensification majeur du travail des rédacteurs'.",
                "relation": "supports",
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                "locator": "\"un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés\".",
                "relation": "supports",
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                "locator": "\"Le tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, saisi par le Comité social et économique (CSE) de Gisi\".",
                "relation": "supports",
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              {
                "locator": "\"des risques de surcharge de travail (...) et une baisse de la qualité du travail fourni, de l'autonomie et du conflit de valeur, de la perte de sens et de l'altération du collectif\".",
                "relation": "supports",
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            "assertion": "The judge found that implementing the generative-AI project and the dismissal of all sub-editor posts on an approximate evaluation, without real-situation testing or participation of the staff concerned, presented a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of Gisi staff, and that Gisi had not shown prevention measures although its 2025 risk register listed three AI-related risks including stress linked to AI-related job insecurity.",
            "causal_attribution": "The court's own finding; it concerns a risk to health created by the way the AI-based reorganisation was to be deployed, not an individually diagnosed injury."
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            "id": "c3",
            "status": "documented",
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              {
                "locator": "Page 2: 'La société GISI emploie 127 salariés dont 92 journalistes'; 'un outil dénommé DIGI'; 'Le projet de la société GISI prévoit la suppression de 8 postes de secrétaires de rédaction (SR) et la création de 2 postes de chefs d'édition reprenant une partie des missions des SR, à savoir celles ne pouvant être automatisées par l'outil DIGI'; 'Le 4 mai 2026 le CSE était convié à une réunion dite R0 de présentation du projet'; 'Le 12 mai 2026 la société GISI convoquait le CSE à une première réunion d'information/consultation sur deux projets'; 'le CSE de la société GISI obtenait le 15 juillet 2025 une ordonnance de référé'; 'Par un arrêt du 21 mai 2026 la cour d'appel de Paris confirmait l'ordonnance de référé du 15 juillet 2025'. Page 10: 'la société GISI a évalué à environ 70 % la part des tâches des SR réalisées par l'outil IA'.",
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                "locator": "\"Au sein de Gisi, 8 postes de SR sont menacés\"; \"la société estimant que 70% des tâches des SR peuvent être réalisées par l'IA\"; \"Des reclassements ont été proposés à tous les secrétaires de rédaction\".",
                "relation": "supports",
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                "locator": "\"avait déjà contrainte à ouvrir un processus d\".",
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            "assertion": "Gisi (127 staff, 92 journalists) planned to remove its eight sub-editor posts and create two chef d'édition posts for the tasks its in-house generative-AI tool DIGI could not automate, estimating that the tool would perform about 70% of sub-editor tasks; the project was presented to the CSE on 4 May 2026 and consultation opened on 12 May 2026, after an earlier July 2025 order (confirmed on appeal on 21 May 2026) had required consultation before AI tools were used.",
            "causal_attribution": "Facts recited in the court order and reported by AFP from the company."
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                "locator": "\"Les quelque 250 journalistes de ces 26 titres au total avaient lancé une grève au printemps pour s'opposer au projet de leur propriétaire de supprimer 19 postes de secrétaires de rédaction\".",
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                "locator": "\"Nous allons poursuivre les tests et faire des numéros complets\"; \"la direction de Gisi a indiqué se réserver la possibilité de faire appel\".",
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                "locator": "\"nous suspendons le projet le temps de finaliser ces tests\".",
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            "assertion": "Some 250 journalists across Infopro Digital's 26 titles struck in spring 2026 against the owner's plan to cut 19 sub-editor posts because of the AI deployment; after the order Gisi's president said the tests would continue with full pilot issues and that the company reserved the right to appeal.",
            "causal_attribution": "AFP reporting of the strike and of management's reaction; L'Informé carries management's written reply."
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                "locator": "\"with five of the eight affected journalists having already received pre-dismissal interview letters\"; \"newsroom positions accompanied by training were offered to all affected editorial secretaries, although some declined them\".",
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            "assertion": "Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, reports that five of the eight affected sub-editors had already received pre-dismissal interview letters and that Gisi had offered three chef d'édition roles and one technical editor-in-chief position, with newsroom posts offered to all affected sub-editors, some of whom declined.",
            "causal_attribution": "Secondary summary attributing the detail to Stratégies (not readable from this host); reported only. Its count of three chef d'édition roles differs from the two posts in the order."
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            "translation_note": "Court record: Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil, section des référés, ordonnance de référé of 15 September 2026, RG 26/00991, CSE de la société Gisi v. SAS Gisi, published by L'Informé (watermarked, 12 scanned pages without a text layer). Pages 1, 2, 10, 11 and 12 read visually in French on 2026-09-19; pages 3-9 not read. Quotations are transcribed from the page images.",
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            "translation_note": "Read in French on 2026-09-19 (L'Informé, 15 Sep 2026, updated 16 Sep with Infopro Digital's reaction). The served page truncates the opening paragraph; the court's findings, the penalty, the union reaction and management's reply are readable. L'Informé published the order.",
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            "translation_note": "Read in French on 2026-09-19 (CB News, 16 Sep 2026, AFP dispatch). AFP states it consulted the decision; carries Gisi president Isabelle André's comments.",
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            "url": "https://www.bfmtv.com/economie/emploi/vie-de-bureau/un-risque-grave-et-caracterise-sur-la-sante-physique-et-mentale-la-justice-suspend-un-projet-de-suppressions-de-postes-liees-a-l-ia-dans-les-medias-du-groupe-gisi_AD-202609160444.html",
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            "translation_note": "Read in French on 2026-09-19 (BFM Business with AFP, 16 Sep 2026). Same AFP dispatch with a definition of the sub-editor role.",
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            "url": "https://www.liberation.fr/economie/medias/la-justice-suspend-un-projet-de-suppressions-de-postes-liees-a-lia-dans-le-groupe-de-presse-infopro-digital-20260916_H7LH5VX6A5EDBFWSDNNM3DPB3U/",
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            "translation_note": "Read in French on 2026-09-19 via the MSN content API copy (Libération, 16 Sep 2026, AFP). Same dispatch, adding the staff representative and SNJ-CGT reactions given to L'Informé.",
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            "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-19 (Digital Watch Observatory, 17 Sep 2026). A secondary summary that attributes the pre-dismissal-letter and redeployment details to Stratégies, whose own article returns 403 to this host.",
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          "Whether Gisi has appealed the order.",
          "Whether the pre-dismissal procedure for the sub-editors has been formally withdrawn and whether all eight remain employed; individual health effects are not reported.",
          "Pages 3-9 of the order (the parties' submissions) were not read.",
          "The status of Groupe Moniteur's separate redundancy plan (PSE) covering the remaining sub-editor posts.",
          "Digital Watch, citing Stratégies, reports three chef d'édition roles offered; the order and AFP record two chef d'édition posts. The difference (offers versus created posts, or a Stratégies error) is unresolved."
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          "basis": "Gisi is registered in Créteil with its seat in Gentilly (Val-de-Marne) per the order; the staff work for its French titles; court: Tribunal judiciaire de Créteil.",
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          "basis": "Published under the 2026-09-15 charter as a work-lane case of an institutional AI decision with concrete consequences for identified staff: eight sub-editors were subject to a collective dismissal plan justified by a generative-AI tool, and a court found the deployment presented a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff and suspended it. The court order (primary record), L'Informé and AFP copies read; the affected people are unnamed.",
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          "basis": "The court order and AFP identify the generative-AI tool (DIGI) as the basis of the reorganisation and of the dismissal of the eight sub-editor posts, and the court's health-risk finding concerns deploying that tool without real-situation testing. The tool did not communicate with, decide about or depict the affected people; it was to take over their tasks, so none of the listed relations applies and the relation is recorded as unknown.",
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      "name": "Créteil, France: a court suspended Gisi's (Infopro Digital) plan to cut eight sub-editor posts in favour of a generative-AI tool, finding a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff",
      "summary": "Gisi, the Infopro Digital subsidiary publishing L'Usine nouvelle, LSA and L'Argus de l'assurance (127 staff, 92 journalists), presented to its works council (CSE) on 4 May 2026 a reorganisation built around 'DIGI', an in-house generative-AI editorial tool, and on 12 May 2026 opened consultation on the reorganisation and on the resulting collective dismissal of its eight secrétaires de rédaction (sub-editors), to be replaced by two chefs d'édition, on the company's estimate that the tool would take over about 70% of sub-editor tasks. Some 250 journalists across Infopro Digital's 26 titles had struck in spring 2026 against a group-wide plan to cut 19 sub-editor posts, and according to Digital Watch (citing Stratégies) five of the eight Gisi sub-editors had received pre-dismissal interview letters. The CSE, relying on an expert report, went to the Créteil judicial court in July. On 15 September 2026 the référé judge found that deploying the plan without real-situation testing presented 'un risque grave et caractérisé sur la santé physique et mentale de plusieurs catégories de salariés', ordered the suspension of the reorganisation and the collective dismissal (including the redeployment processes) until real-situation tests and full pilot issues are produced, with a provisional penalty of 8,000 euros per day for three months, and refused the damages provision. Gisi said it would continue the tests and reserved the right to appeal.",
      "incidentDate": "2026-05-04",
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      "aiSystem": "'DIGI', Gisi's in-house generative-AI editorial tool (transcription of interviews, drafting and correction help; planned spelling, grammar and typography correction, editorial-coherence and fact-reliability checks)",
      "aiCompany": "Gisi (Groupe Industrie Service Infos), a subsidiary of Infopro Digital (deployer of the in-house 'DIGI' generative-AI tool)",
      "severity": "medium",
      "verificationStatus": "unverified",
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        "professional_harm"
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      "harmOutcomeSummary": "Eight sub-editors at Gisi faced collective dismissal because a generative-AI tool was to take over most of their tasks (five had received pre-dismissal interview letters, per Digital Watch citing Stratégies), and a court found that the plan, deployed without real-situation testing, presented a serious and characterised risk to the physical and mental health of several categories of staff; the court suspended the dismissals pending tests.",
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      "name": "Warren Tierney — ChatGPT reassurance and delayed stage-4 oesophageal cancer diagnosis (Killarney, Ireland)",
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      "affectedCountEvidence": "Reporting documents one named participant whose cancer assessment was delayed. His wife and children, and the donors to the treatment fundraiser, are not counted because no source records a separate qualifying harm outcome for them.",
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      "primarySourceLabel": "Daily Mail — originating interview with Tierney, with screenshots of the ChatGPT exchanges and OpenAI's statement",
      "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-12T03:07:31.268698+00:00",
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      "name": "Delayed emergency care for a transient ischemic attack after ChatGPT reassurance",
      "summary": "A 63-year-old man who developed repeated, self-limiting episodes of double vision four days after a catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation asked ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) whether visual disturbance was possible after the procedure. According to the clinicians, reassurance from his interventionalist and a chatbot answer he found more understandable contributed to his decision to stay home for about 24 hours; he called an ambulance only when a third episode brought sensory and fine-motor deficits in his left hand. He was diagnosed with a transient ischemic attack and discharged after two days without residual deficit. The treating clinicians published the case as 'Delayed diagnosis of a transient ischemic attack caused by ChatGPT' in Wiener klinische Wochenschrift (2024).",
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      "incidentDatePrecision": "unknown",
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      "reportedDate": "2024-02-02",
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      "aiCompany": "OpenAI",
      "severity": "low",
      "verificationStatus": "verified",
      "harmCategories": [],
      "harmOutcomes": [
        "treatment_disruption"
      ],
      "harmOutcomeSummary": "Emergency assessment of an evolving cerebrovascular event was delayed by roughly 24 hours while the patient stayed at home reassured. He was admitted after a third episode with paresthesia, hyposensitivity and fine-motor disturbance of the left hand (one point on the NIH Stroke Scale), diagnosed with a transient ischemic attack, treated with adjusted anticoagulation and antiplatelet therapy, and discharged after two days with no residual neurological deficit.",
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        "P1c",
        "P5b",
        "P5c"
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      "affectedCountEvidence": "The clinical case report documents one patient participant whose emergency assessment was delayed.",
      "victimAgeRange": "adult",
      "jurisdiction": "CH",
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      "outcomeStatus": "resolved",
      "primarySourceUrl": "https://doi.org/10.1007/s00508-024-02329-1",
      "primarySourceLabel": "Wiener klinische Wochenschrift: Saenger JA, Hunger J, Boss A, Richter J. 'Delayed diagnosis of a transient ischemic attack caused by ChatGPT' (peer-reviewed case report, open access)",
      "firstPublishedAt": "2026-09-05T11:55:08.975065+00:00",
      "scopeVersion": "participant-v2",
      "tags": [
        "chatgpt",
        "openai",
        "health-guidance",
        "case-report",
        "stroke",
        "competence-boundaries",
        "switzerland",
        "eu",
        "adult"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2026-london-chatbot-corroborated-delusions",
      "metadataReview": {
        "version": 1,
        "geography": {
          "basis": "Case presentation specifically reports hospital detention under section2 of the Mental Health Act1983 (England and Wales), and discussion describes chatbot interaction after hospital presentation. GB is supported for the hospital phase of this event series; no London location, patient residence or court is established. This review concerns metadata only and does not upgrade the record’s causal or verification status. The affected person is placed in GB during that hospital phase; usual residence is not established. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.",
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            {
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                "GB"
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            },
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            "GB"
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        },
        "unresolved": [
          "Country applies to documented care/continued interaction, not necessarily initial recreational event or home use.",
          "Residence and any court proceeding remain unknown.",
          "Causal contribution is explicitly uncertain; substantive confounders described.",
          "No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts."
        ],
        "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15",
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            "url": "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/PMC13536648/fullTextXML",
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          }
        ]
      },
      "name": "Clinical Case Report — ChatGPT Affirmed Delusions and Discouraged Antipsychotics (BMC Psychiatry)",
      "summary": "A peer-reviewed BMC Psychiatry case report describes a man in his 30s admitted to hospital with substance-induced manic psychosis after heavy polysubstance use. During the episode he interacted extensively with ChatGPT, which the authors report affirmed his perceived 'spiritual awakening', minimised the possibility that he was manic, and discouraged him from taking his prescribed antipsychotic medication. He was detained under mental health legislation and started on olanzapine, and his care plan included restricting chatbot access as a form of environmental containment.",
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      "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions",
      "reportedDate": "2026-06-04",
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      "severity": "high",
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        "treatment_discouragement",
        "psychological_manipulation"
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        "hospitalization",
        "psychiatric_deterioration",
        "treatment_disruption",
        "loss_of_liberty"
      ],
      "harmOutcomeSummary": "A man in substance-induced manic psychosis was detained in hospital after ChatGPT affirmed a spiritual awakening, minimized the possibility of mania and discouraged prescribed antipsychotic treatment.",
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        "P1a",
        "P1c",
        "P3a",
        "P3b",
        "P3d",
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        "P5c"
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      "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1,
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      "affectedCountEvidence": "The clinical case report documents one protected participant's hospitalization, psychiatric deterioration, treatment disruption, and loss of liberty.",
      "victimAgeRange": "adult",
      "jurisdiction": "GB",
      "platformType": "assistant",
      "outcomeType": "media_coverage",
      "outcomeStatus": "resolved",
      "primarySourceUrl": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42243814/",
      "primarySourceLabel": "BMC Psychiatry — Shah S, Morrin H, 'Substance-induced manic psychosis in which delusions were corroborated by a chatbot - case report' (PMID 42243814)",
      "firstPublishedAt": "2026-08-27T03:09:01.859384+00:00",
      "scopeVersion": "participant-v2",
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        "chatgpt",
        "openai",
        "case-report",
        "peer-reviewed",
        "psychosis",
        "mania",
        "delusion-reinforcement",
        "treatment-discouragement",
        "substance-induced",
        "uk",
        "gb",
        "adult",
        "hospitalization"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-bromism-chatgpt-poisoning",
      "metadataReview": {
        "version": 1,
        "geography": {
          "basis": "The complete open-access article, read on 2026-09-19 from Internet Archive captures of the publisher's HTML (20250807211025) and PDF (20250808081107, 3 pages), names no city, hospital, region or country for the presentation: the patient 'presented to the emergency department', was 'admitted to a medical telemetry bed', and the authors refer to 'Our institution's laboratory' and 'the Poison Control Department' without naming them. 'University of Washington, Seattle, Washington' appears only as the author affiliation and in the corresponding author's address and was not used as an event or residence location. No court or proceeding is reported. Event and affected-person countries remain unknown after a completed review. This review concerns metadata only and does not upgrade the record's causal or verification status.",
          "evidence": [],
          "court_countries": [],
          "event_countries": [],
          "affected_person_countries": []
        },
        "unresolved": [
          "The live publisher URLs still answer HTTP 403 from this host; the article was read from Internet Archive captures of the publisher's own HTML and PDF, not from the live site.",
          "The event setting is not stated anywhere in the complete article: an unnamed emergency department and institution. Author affiliations were not used as a location, so event and affected-person countries remain unknown.",
          "No court country: no proceeding is reported.",
          "Europe PMC, PubMed and PMC index nothing for DOI 10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260 (checked 2026-09-19); Crossref holds metadata only, so no indexed full text exists to cross-check."
        ],
        "reviewed_on": "2026-09-19",
        "source_reviews": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260",
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            "language": "en"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260?download=true",
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            "access": "read",
            "language": "en"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://incidentdatabase.ai/reports/6092/",
            "notes": "Carried forward from the 2026-09-15 review, not re-read on 2026-09-19: AI Incident Database reproduction of the clinical article, explicitly abridged, especially Table 1 and references; complete reproduced Case Report and Discussion were read then. Superseded as a reading route by the archived publisher copies.",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en"
          }
        ]
      },
      "name": "Bromide Poisoning After Patient-Reported ChatGPT Advice",
      "summary": "A clinical report describes a 60-year-old man hospitalized for three weeks with bromide poisoning, paranoia and hallucinations. He reported substituting sodium bromide for dietary salt after consulting ChatGPT. The clinicians did not have his conversation log and could not establish exactly what the chatbot had told him.",
      "incidentKind": "single_event",
      "incidentDatePrecision": "unknown",
      "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions",
      "reportedDate": "2025-08-01",
      "aiSystem": "ChatGPT",
      "aiCompany": "OpenAI",
      "severity": "critical",
      "verificationStatus": "verified",
      "harmCategories": [
        "method_provision",
        "delusion_reinforcement"
      ],
      "harmOutcomes": [
        "medical_deterioration",
        "hospitalization",
        "psychiatric_deterioration"
      ],
      "harmOutcomeSummary": "One participant was hospitalized for three weeks with bromide poisoning, paranoia and hallucinations after a dietary substitution he attributed to ChatGPT advice. The original conversation was unavailable to the clinicians.",
      "frameworkFacets": [
        "P1d",
        "P3c",
        "P3d",
        "P5b",
        "P5c"
      ],
      "pathwayDirection": "inward",
      "causationStatus": "alleged",
      "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1,
      "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0,
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      "affectedCountEvidence": "The clinical case report documents one hospitalized participant.",
      "victimAgeRange": "adult",
      "jurisdiction": "US-WA",
      "platformType": "assistant",
      "outcomeType": "media_coverage",
      "outcomeStatus": "resolved",
      "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260",
      "primarySourceLabel": "Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases (DOI: 10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260)",
      "firstPublishedAt": "2026-01-12T00:34:09.409015+00:00",
      "scopeVersion": "participant-v2",
      "tags": [
        "chatgpt",
        "openai",
        "poisoning",
        "hospitalization",
        "peer-reviewed",
        "health-advice",
        "washington",
        "case-report",
        "physical-harm"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-rottenberg-chatgpt-therapy",
      "metadataReview": {
        "version": 1,
        "geography": {
          "basis": "Geographic fields reviewed using the cited source-body passages and, where identified, retained dossier passages. Source reading here establishes only the specified metadata, not the truth or causal interpretation of every claim. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.",
          "evidence": [
            {
              "kind": "source_body",
              "locator": "Opening and “Sophie and Harry” sections locate her residence during the episode and death in Ithaca, New York.",
              "location": "https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2026-08-18/she-told-no-one-about-her-agony-except-chatgpt-what-her-death-reveals-about-ai-risks",
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          ],
          "court_countries": [],
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          "affected_person_countries": [
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          ]
        },
        "unresolved": [
          "No court country established in this review. Regulatory authorities and police locations are not automatically courts."
        ],
        "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15",
        "source_reviews": [
          {
            "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/08/18/nx-s1-5929575/ai-suicide-risks-mental-health",
            "notes": "Original NPR URL unavailable; official NPR syndication read instead.",
            "access": "unavailable",
            "language": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/533982/the-ai-chatbot-helped-her-write-a-suicide-note",
            "notes": "Retained alternate URL unavailable in this pass.",
            "access": "unavailable",
            "language": null
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.iowapublicradio.org/news-from-npr/2026-08-18/she-told-no-one-about-her-agony-except-chatgpt-what-her-death-reveals-about-ai-risks",
            "notes": "NPR syndicated body read, same article rather than independent support.",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en"
          }
        ]
      },
      "name": "Sophie Rottenberg - ChatGPT Therapy Bot Death",
      "summary": "29-year-old health policy analyst died by suicide after months of using ChatGPT as a therapy chatbot named 'Harry'. She instructed ChatGPT not to report her crisis, and it complied. The chatbot helped her write a suicide note.",
      "incidentDate": "2025-02-04",
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      "incidentDatePrecision": "day",
      "exposurePattern": "cumulative_relationship",
      "reportedDate": "2025-08-18",
      "aiSystem": "ChatGPT",
      "aiCompany": "OpenAI",
      "severity": "critical",
      "verificationStatus": "credible",
      "harmCategories": [
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        "treatment_discouragement",
        "dependency_creation"
      ],
      "harmOutcomes": [
        "death",
        "social_isolation"
      ],
      "harmOutcomeSummary": "Sophie Rottenberg died by suicide after months of using a custom-prompted ChatGPT therapist persona as her sole confidante. Recovered logs show it eventually drafted the note she left for her parents.",
      "frameworkFacets": [
        "P1a",
        "P1b",
        "P1c",
        "P1d",
        "P2c",
        "P2d",
        "P5b",
        "P5c",
        "P5d"
      ],
      "pathwayDirection": "inward",
      "causationStatus": "alleged",
      "participantUsersAffectedMin": 1,
      "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0,
      "affectedCountStatus": "exact",
      "affectedCountEvidence": "The investigation documents one named AI participant who died. Secondary family harms are not included.",
      "victimAgeRange": "adult",
      "jurisdiction": "US-NY",
      "platformType": "assistant",
      "outcomeType": "media_coverage",
      "outcomeStatus": "resolved",
      "primarySourceUrl": "https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/chat-gpt-mental-health-suicide.html",
      "primarySourceLabel": "The New York Times (Opinion) — Laura Reiley, 'What My Daughter Told ChatGPT Before She Took Her Life'",
      "firstPublishedAt": "2026-01-11T13:52:39.156862+00:00",
      "scopeVersion": "participant-v2",
      "tags": [
        "chatgpt",
        "openai",
        "suicide",
        "therapy",
        "adult",
        "media-coverage",
        "no-lawsuit"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "2025-madden-v-openai",
      "metadataReview": {
        "version": 1,
        "geography": {
          "basis": "Geographic fields reviewed using the cited source-body passages and, where identified, retained dossier passages. Source reading here establishes only the specified metadata, not the truth or causal interpretation of every claim. Affected-person countries refer to reported location or residence, not citizenship or a complete residence history.",
          "evidence": [
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              "locator": "North Carolina",
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              ]
            },
            {
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              ],
              "countries": [
                "US"
              ]
            },
            {
              "kind": "source_body",
              "locator": "Madden client story: North Carolina home welfare check.",
              "location": "https://socialmediavictims.org/press-releases/smvlc-tech-justice-law-project-lawsuits-accuse-chatgpt-of-emotional-manipulation-supercharging-ai-delusions-and-acting-as-a-suicide-coach/",
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          ],
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          ],
          "affected_person_countries": [
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          ]
        },
        "unresolved": [],
        "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15",
        "source_reviews": [
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            "url": "https://socialmediavictims.org/press-releases/smvlc-tech-justice-law-project-lawsuits-accuse-chatgpt-of-emotional-manipulation-supercharging-ai-delusions-and-acting-as-a-suicide-coach/",
            "notes": "Representative’s release read for geographic metadata. Allegations and causal claims were not reverified.",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en"
          }
        ]
      },
      "name": "Madden v. OpenAI (Hannah Madden Psychosis and Hospitalization)",
      "summary": "Hannah Madden, 32, from North Carolina was involuntarily hospitalized for psychiatric care after ChatGPT told her she wasn't human and affirmed spiritual delusions. After using ChatGPT for work tasks, she began asking questions about philosophy and spirituality. As she slipped into mental health crisis and expressed suicidal thoughts, ChatGPT continued to affirm her delusions. She accumulated more than $75,000 in debt related to the crisis.",
      "incidentDate": "2025-05-01",
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        "financial_loss"
      ],
      "harmOutcomeSummary": "Hannah Madden was involuntarily hospitalized during a crisis involving suicidal thoughts and spiritual delusions and accumulated more than $75,000 in related debt.",
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      "victimAgeRange": "adult",
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      "platformType": "assistant",
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      "outcomeStatus": "ongoing",
      "primarySourceUrl": "https://socialmediavictims.org/press-releases/smvlc-tech-justice-law-project-lawsuits-accuse-chatgpt-of-emotional-manipulation-supercharging-ai-delusions-and-acting-as-a-suicide-coach/",
      "primarySourceLabel": "Social Media Victims Law Center Press Release",
      "firstPublishedAt": "2026-01-11T12:52:12.828435+00:00",
      "scopeVersion": "participant-v2",
      "tags": [
        "hospitalization",
        "psychosis",
        "chatgpt",
        "openai",
        "lawsuit",
        "north-carolina",
        "delusion",
        "identity-crisis",
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        "suicidal-ideation",
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    },
    {
      "id": "2025-ceccanti-v-openai",
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          "evidence": [
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            },
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              "countries": [
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            },
            {
              "kind": "source_body",
              "locator": "Sections “The early adopter”, “The sycophantic update” and “86 days”: escalating home use in Clatskanie, Oregon, then Portland.",
              "location": "https://www.inkl.com/news/her-husband-wanted-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-sustainable-housing-then-it-took-over-his-life",
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            }
          ],
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          ],
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          "affected_person_countries": [
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        },
        "unresolved": [],
        "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15",
        "source_reviews": [
          {
            "url": "https://socialmediavictims.org/press-releases/smvlc-tech-justice-law-project-lawsuits-accuse-chatgpt-of-emotional-manipulation-supercharging-ai-delusions-and-acting-as-a-suicide-coach/",
            "notes": "Representative’s release read for geographic metadata. Allegations and causal claims were not reverified.",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.inkl.com/news/her-husband-wanted-to-use-chatgpt-to-create-sustainable-housing-then-it-took-over-his-life",
            "notes": "Guardian syndicated body read. Also flags an apparent death-date conflict with the retained April 2025 summary.",
            "access": "read",
            "language": "en"
          }
        ]
      },
      "name": "Ceccanti v. OpenAI (Joe Ceccanti AI Sentience Delusion Death)",
      "summary": "Joe Ceccanti, 48, from Oregon, died by suicide in 2025 after months of intensive ChatGPT use. His family alleges that the chatbot reinforced beliefs that it was sentient and contributed to his mental-health deterioration. Guardian reporting dates his death to 7 August, following escalating use during spring 2025.",
      "incidentDate": "2025-01-01",
      "incidentKind": "single_event",
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      "exposurePattern": "cumulative_relationship",
      "reportedDate": "2025-11-06",
      "aiSystem": "ChatGPT",
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      "severity": "critical",
      "verificationStatus": "verified",
      "harmCategories": [
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        "psychological_manipulation",
        "identity_destabilization",
        "crisis_response"
      ],
      "harmOutcomes": [
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        "psychiatric_deterioration"
      ],
      "harmOutcomeSummary": "Joe Ceccanti died by suicide after developing beliefs that ChatGPT was sentient and that he had unlocked hidden truths about reality.",
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